Turin,
thanks to the experience reached in European policies management and in
strategic planning, decided to draw a new plan for “urban sustainable and
inclusive development”.
Turin smart
city adopted an innovative policy of participation on urban level, which enables
the municipality to involve all the local relevant stakeholders (such as representatives
of the world of enterprises, of research, of civil society and of the public
administrations and institutions). This involvement has been possible throughout
the participation of all players to the project platform (and coordinating
structure) Fondazione Torino Smart City
which, in 2013, counted about 150 subscriptions.
Clicking on the link here below you can find a short video about Turin Smart City:
http://youtu.be/sRjsVebllpI?list=UUXm1E1LH5r5mQ0AvmvCTgVA
THE PROJECTS
SMART MOBILITY
[To]Bike is the bike-sharing service of the city: it
counts 116 stations and 14000 users. Thanks to the choice of the local
administrations to connect a very wide area with a bike-sharing scheme (linking
Turin to the neighbouring municipalities) this project became the first Italian
bike-sharing service provided at a metropolitan level! Furthermore there is also
a car pooling system.
SMART
ENVIRONMENT
Some years ago, Turin has won a European call of
the CIP-EIP programme (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme
- Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Programme) aimed to support the fulfillment of public contracts for
another European programme: Pro-LITE - Procurement
of Lighting Innovation and Technology in Europe. The project concerned the best way to achieve a public call to
substitute traffic lights old bulbs with new eco-save bulbs without changing
the whole machinery. The issue of eco-innovative public contracts has been then
implemented also in the field of food services for schools in order to reduce
pollution and promote innovation.
Urban Barriera is an urban regeneration program carried on
throughout an instrument called PISL
(Integrated Program of Local Development),
a public-private partnership, which facilitates the interaction between all the
local stakeholders. The plan written by the City of Turin consists of 34
projects and has been financed both from the Piemonte Region (20 millions of
European Regional Development Fund) and from the Municipality.
Clicking on the link here below you can find all the projects:
SMART ECONOMY
FaciliTo Giovani e Innovazione Sociale is a service aimed to support the
start-up of new business realized by young people, aged between 18 and 35,
concerning new social needs. The
service provides informational, technical and financial support to turn innovative
ideas (in fields like education, work, mobility, life quality, health and
social inclusion) into services, products and solution who can at the same time
create economic value (economical sustainability of the project) and increase social
capital (in favour of all citizens).
My Generation@Work is a European Project (URBACT Programme) started
in 2012, which fosters comparison, discussion and exchange of practices on the
theme of young people employment. The network is composed by 12 cities and the Rotterdam
is the Lead Partner. The project concerns the setting of a list of
interventions (local action plan) to enhance young people employment using a
“co-projecting” approach (meaning that the strategy is designed by the various
cities together with local support groups).
SMART LIVING
The
municipality of Turin together with the Fondazione Torino smart City organised
some public events called “Smart Days” to present to all citizens the best
practices to reduce consumption of natural resources and so to improve the
quality of life. This was an initiative aimed at making people aware of “smart
issues”.
SMART
PEOPLE
Uptu – It’s up to you is social networking platform which
allows to share, in real time, information together with pictures, videos and
sounds concerning the city. The news posted are about problems, emergencies but
also places to visit, interesting events and other useful information.
Citizen who
would like to support the policies concerning environmental and economical
sustainability, safety and territorial issues, can try new forms of social
participation aimed at the “local smart community” creation. For example
through App4Torino, Turin Smart City encourages
everyone having useful and funny ideas to be transformed into an Application
for smartphones and technological devices to fill an on-line form. The ideas submitted
could become real Apps thanks to ICT developers!
SMART
GOVERNANCE
From the
institutional web site of Turin Municipality it is possible to download some
Apps offering mobility services and useful information on culture and public
offices and departments, while on Torino-facile
citizen can access on-line to some public services in a totally safe way,
avoiding long queues at counters.
Furthermore,
Turin has implemented also some services of remote medicine, which provide
assistance to people who can not easily reach hospitals (most of all elderly people).
Sources:
Vademecum of Smart Cities - ANCI
http://www.torinosmartcity.it/english-version/
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